An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    form us, that they muft be gathered green, or at lead a Month before they are ripe, elle they are not fit to be fent beyond the Seas. The Sea-Air, and their being fhut up clofie, gives them that gol¬ den yellow Colour, we fo much admire. The Juice of a Crab Apple, of unripe Grapes, or Goofe-berries, or even good Juice of Sorrel, would come up at lead to their Virtue of extinguifhing the Heat of Spirits, if not to their Flavour. And how kindly a Gueft fuch Juices would be to the fine Fibres of weak Stomachs and Bowels, I leave every one to judge. The Truth is, all fermenting juices, fuch as thefe eminently are, mud be highly injurious to weak Conflitutions; for meet¬ ing with the Crudities in the Bowels, they muft raife a new Battle and Col- lublation there, and fo muft blow up the whole Cavities of the human Body, with acrid Fumes and Vapours, the great and fore Enemy of fuch Bowels. And in the JVeft Indies, where from the Neccfilty of drinking much, becaufe of the Vio¬ lence of the Heat, and from the Want of proper Liquors there, they are forced to drink much BUNCH, thoJ Lemons and Oranges be in their full Perfeftion, they are univerfally afflifted with Ner¬ vous and Mortal dry-Belly-ackes, Balfies, I Cramps,